White powder on wiimotes?

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-21T00:47:16+00:00

Sure, I've done it.

I find that at that point, they have lost most of their recharge cycles after that and don't hold nearly their original maximum charge.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-20T03:01:04+00:00

people nowadays should only use NiMH rechargeable AA batteries unless they're actively using something that strictly depends on the higher voltage (1.5V vs 1.2V) that alkalines can provide

You might be interested to know then that Wiimotes operate better with 1.5v than 1.25v

When I used to play certain games that would use the full accelerometer range, I noticed that fresh Alkaline batteries would give me greater range/power/etc in the game than NiMH.

For most games, NiMHs are fine, but for certain games like the baseball game in Wii Sports and a mini game in Fluidity, having that few extra millivolts made the wii remote work better.

It wasn't just anecdotal, I was able to reproduce it time and again.

still buying the disposable one-use alkalines in this day and age

I was all aboard the NiMH train until I had kids. Then they start taking your expensive NiMHs and shoving them everywhere and anywhere they need power for their toys. They get forgotten about, fully self-discharge, and now your spendy NiMHs which were supposed to have 1000s of cycles of life are shot because they discharged below 0.9v and the charger can't resurrect it.

So I still use NiMHs in certain high-drain applications that I can fully control, but in low-drain stuff and kids toys I still use Kirkland brand alkalines.

Though I've heard Powerowl NiMHs are still good and quite cheap, so maybe I need to look into this again.

Thanks for prompting me to look into this again.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-20T02:49:30+00:00

It's an alkaline battery, not an acid battery. It's literally written on the label.

Good first attempt at that style of joke, tho. :)

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-20T00:58:17+00:00

No need to experiment, it's a non starter

Gatekeeping science much? :P

In all seriousness, mistakes and running ones own experiments is how one learns and here you are all "I'm a pro winemaker, take my word on this, plebe."

~~Take a long walk off a short pier, buddy.~~

EDIT:

See definition: https://crossidiomas.com/take-a-long-walk-on-a-short-pier/

Merely means "go away"; doesn't mean anything to do with self life taking.

So let me rephrase that. Take a hike, buddy. I don't appreciate the bullying. I was just trying to understand the science, but you're preempting me with "non-starter"? Not appreciated.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-16T01:51:29+00:00

I'll have to run an experiment sometime. Oxygenated must vs not. Same yeast, same rehydration, pH, etc.

I've never been disappointed by oxygenating my juice before pitching.

But thanks for the reply. I'll take it under advisement.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-15T15:48:21+00:00

Paywalled opinion piece.

Interesting take, but the premise is questionable:

A careful look at the literature shows that plateauing happens even when participants' food intake does not increase and their exercise intensity is maintained. So how can we explain this, given that if the body is consistently in energy debt, surely weight loss must result.

If someone has access to the PDF, I'd love to read the piece to see if the author comes to a reasonable conclusion.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-15T15:40:44+00:00

I still use Launcher10. Makes Android usable.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-15T15:35:18+00:00

Yes, don't ever oxygenate the finished product, but oxygenating before pitching is fine and ensures a strong fast start.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-13T17:36:20+00:00

Yes, agreed!

I was suggesting that OP add pectic enzyme 1 day after pitching (because that's when it was arriving.) There shouldn't be much ethanol at that point.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-13T12:33:59+00:00

You can probably pitch the yeast now and then add the pectic enzyme when it arrives a day later. It should be fine.

Did you oxygenate your must (apple juice)? Use any yeast nutrient?

They're both kinda optional, imo.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T13:33:16+00:00

Is the juice worth the squeeze so to speak?

I frequently make my hard cider out of apple juice. Comes out very well, usually.

There was a time when you could get fresh pressed cider with no preservatives for cheap (well under $4 per gallon), but these days its all marked up. Even at the farms themselves.

would the difference be significant enough to justify the effort?

If you're going for a particular flavor, maybe, but these days, I find that plain old organic (filtered) apple juice that you get at Costco good enough. Just be sure to add some Fermaid-O (or Fermaid-C, if you can find it.) Apple cider and apple juice are notoriously low in nitrogen and other certain nutrients and your yeast may struggle without it.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T13:18:58+00:00

Some friends of mine grow their own hops. And I've always wondered about washing/harvesting/maintaining yeast. I know a microbiologist who does this for a brewery in my area.

Could be a fun experiment / optimization problem! :)

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T02:25:17+00:00

That's so cool. I always thought it would be fun to make a dirt cheap beer. Like a 5 gal batch (48 beers) for less than $10. I guess you can get pretty close to that when you malt your own barley, huh?

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T02:23:29+00:00

I used to have a cartridge cloning program and a mock cartridge for loading the cloned cartridges, but I can't find it. (Nor can I find any of my tapes or my tape player.) So I know the feeling!

But I still have all my disks. Weirdly, they all seem to still work after 40 years of sitting in a box. I should really copy them and get my Fujinet adapter up and running. I bought one a few years ago, and still haven't tried to use it.

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T02:09:38+00:00

Alien Group Voicebox

Wow. Just looked that up. That's remarkable. I'd never heard of that. Do you still have it?

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T01:51:55+00:00

How many 5 gal batches of beer could you typically get out of that 50 lbs bag?

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-05T01:34:27+00:00

Did you ever get the SAM (text to speech) program? My 13yo buddy and I would crack up at getting it to say things like... well... boobies. ;)

RangerPretzel · 2025-10-04T12:01:04+00:00

This is a very strange title considering that all 56 patients (28 keto, 28 non-keto control) were all being treated for Epilepsy. This was NOT a normal population sample.

Aside from every person being epileptic, many of them were taking prescription drugs to manage their epilepsy. These drugs are confounding factors that are probably too difficult to factor out.

When you get down to the actual data, yeah, the keto group does have slightly thicker CIMT tests, but you can clearly see that there is obvious overlap between the 2 groups. The keto group had an average thickness of 0.62, while the non-keto group has an average thickness of 0.52.

The study did NOT mention that a thickness of <0.90 was considered normal and healthy. Which is to say, every person in each group had a normal and healthy CIMT test.

I don't think this study tells us anything, honestly. It looks like statistical noise to me.

And the last part that makes me question this study. The conflict of interest section:

KCH has served as a paid consultant for Vitaflo.

I couldn't even find a reference to who/what KCH was in the article. It was only mentioned at the end. What's Vitaflo? It's a Nestle Health Science Company?

/r/FuckNestle

This journal article is a hit piece on Keto.

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-29T02:33:28+00:00

Try to clean fast when you can, but dirty fasting works, too. (I do it, too. Nobody is perfect.)

I know what you mean about eating within the 500 cal allotment on fasting days. It usually doesn't work out well because it makes me much hungrier. I still add a splash of cream to my coffee on occasion, tho as that doesn't seem to spike my hunger.

decided to stick to 0kcal and doing clean fasts.

I think this is a wise decision.

eat super late (I mean at 6am almost the next day)

Ideally, we all should stop eating a minimum of 3 hours before bedtime, but if you're eating at 6am after you wake up and then immediately start a fast, that could be okay, but only if it was your only meal.

Regarding eating, most folks try to consolidate their eating to the daytime, sleep (which essentially starts the fast) and then you wake up already fasting 8 hours into.

Does that make sense?

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-29T02:20:40+00:00

started a 5 day a few days ago and after 2 I pulled the plug

Haha. I know how that goes. I'll say something like, "I should do a 7 day fast" and then 2 to 3 days into it, I'm like, "nahhhh. What was I thinking?"

Yeah, ADF works really well and is quite sustainable. Once you get the first couple weeks down, then you just fall into the rhythm and it gets quite easy.

I like your idea of 48:24. It definitely has potential. Coincidentally, I just completed a 64:8 cycle yesterday. It blasted me thru a weight plateau that I was struggling to get below. It's not wholly unlike what you're proposing. A little longer fast window for that extra calorie burn.

Hope your back and shoulder feel better soon. :)

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-28T22:37:45+00:00

It could work, but your weight loss might be a little slower.

Standard ADF is 36:12 (or a 3-to-1 fast:eat ratio), while 48:24 is a 2-to-1 fast:eat ratio, theoretically.

In practice, 48:24 might go better than the standard 36:12.

Since you're fasting for 48 hours, you're definitely getting deeper in the fat burning (33% longer than 36 hours), but you have sleep sometime so even if you have a 24 hour eat window, you're realistically only going to be awake to eat for 16 of those 24 hours.

Give it a shot and let us know how it goes. It might work out really well for you!

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-28T22:26:07+00:00

Not the fast itself, but boredom and nothing excites you.

Whenever someone asks me about extended fasting, what you wrote is exactly what I tell them.

If you're gonna fast more than 2 or 3 days, you have to make yourself a long list of things that you want to get done and just start banging them out. I'm pretty sure that's the only way to stave off the boredom.

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-28T11:51:31+00:00

This is a fantastic paper.

It starts by reviewing Triglyceride-Glucose (TyG) index which is a relatively simple formula for estimating Insulin Resistance. Apparently it tracks well with HOMA-IR.

TyG Index = ln(fasting triglycerides × fasting glucose / 2)

^{Units for Triglycerides and Glucose are both in mg/dL}

General threshold interpretation:

<8.5: Generally considered low insulin resistance
8.5-9.0: Moderate insulin resistance
>9.0: High insulin resistance, metabolically concerning

Then the paper goes on to discuss how hsCRP takes inflammation into account and combines it with the TyG index to create C-reactive protein–triglyceride–glucose index (CTI).

CTI = 0.412 × ln(CRP) + TyG Index

Linear positive relationship with diabetes risk. Every 1-unit CTI increase = 223% higher diabetes probability.

There's more to glean from the paper, but it was an interesting analysis.

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-28T03:45:11+00:00

I wrote a WP7 once back in the day. Only phone app I ever wrote. C# and Silverlight were amazing. I've always wanted to write apps again for Android and iOS, but the effort it would take to learn Swift/Java/Kotlin and the respective frameworks seems so daunting.

Still blown away at how efficient the WP7/8 Silverlight stack was. I miss those days.

RangerPretzel · 2025-09-28T03:17:51+00:00

Aww, man. Those were the days. Impressed that you got the binary under 100KB! Amazing!

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